Leaves of Grass **ASSOCIATION COPY SIGNED BY PULITZER PRIZE WINNING WHITMAN BIOGRAPHER EMORY HOLLOWAY, RARE 1940 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DU

**ASSOCIATION COPY SIGNED BY PULITZER PRIZE WINNING WHITMAN BIOGRAPHER EMORY HOLLOWAY, RARE 1940 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET** Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION 1940. This is a Modern Library Giant edition, number G50. The book is bound in blue cloth type G4 binding with plain end papers. PRIVATE COPY OF EMORY HOLLOWAY, who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 for his biography on Walt Whitman, AND GIVEN TO HIS DAUGHTER RITA. I also have listed on ABE Emory Holloway's only children's book Janice in Tomorrow-Land which was written for and dedicated to his daughter Rita. The reason for writing the Janice book is because he realized that his daughter Rita had never read any of his numerous biographical works on Walt Whitman. So the fact that this copy of Leaves of Grass is signed and dedicated to his daughter Rita had special meaning for both. Book is NEAR FINE binding solid and tight with minimal shelf wear, bright blue top stain perfect, gilt bright and nice, no writing or marks, contents are clean and bright. SIGNED BY EMORY HOLLOWAY AND DEDICATED TO HIS DAUGHTER RITA. BEAUTIFUL WOODCUTS BY VALENTI ANGELO. GORGEOUS!! The dust jacket is GOOD+ with chipping and some loss throughout. Otherwise it is relatively bright and clean with $1.25 price present on inside flap. 271 titles listed on the inside indicating a 1940 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. ONE-OF-A-KIND ASSOCIATION COPY FIRST EDITION WITH A DUST JACKET! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**